1932-09-17 — Page 11

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1932.

Long Ago Stories

Hilda, The Werwolf

THE

CHINA MAIL

WENDY'S LITTLE NEEDLEWOMEN

A Bag For The Beach

The WENDY

HUT

Hilda Hyed when William the) The dog licked her face joyfully; Conqueror became King of all and as she put her arms round his neck Hilda saw a pack of wolves was In the England. Her home

behind him-citing.

and North, and when the Conqueror

Now dogs often ran away gave the land on which her father's

joined the wolves who were their and L Hilda stood house was built to a Norman noble, ancestora, whe commanded the people to 'till trembling and waiting, because she the fields for him, the Saxons re-did not know what to do, Grendel, with his great intelligence took Belled...

command of the, strange situation.

Then William marched his army, He pulled Hilda towards the pack, against them, determined to teach and they all walked away together the Saxons that he was not going to to the dark fir trees. waste his time crushing their rebel

my father's

"Grendel hound who joined the "wolves last winter!"

lions. So he destroyed all the

animal and

hures and deer, but the little girl

Hilda had heard that people some- times lived with wolves, and she believed that some people turned into wolves at night. So the iden of staying with Grendel and the pack did not seem strange to her.

"You will not let them harm me, I know, Grendel," she said. "And you must find me food-a Hare or la bird-and in summer there will

be berries."

So Hilda lived with Grendel and the wolves for a year, and became! quite wild.

THE BILLY BOYS' WORKSHOP

Book-Ends, as Présents

THE HAWK WHO TRIED HIS WINGS

This is a story told in Persia. You don't want to think about Once upon a time, a baby hawk Chrisimas yet, of course, but fell out of his nest, and a kind you have a little time to spare in mother kite picked him up and car- [your "workshop" occasionally you might care to make book-ends to give away later on.

The pair shown in the sketch can be "made

She

Fried him to her own nest. brought him up with her own lit- the kites, and she called him Shah. As soon as Shah knew how to fly, from odd pieces of any kind of he wanted to try his wings over the mountains, and all the little kites screamed with horror,

wood.

"But why can't I fly far, far far?" asked Shah."

?

The ornamental uprights are half an inch thick, and for these you will need two pieces of wood six

"Because dreadful things might| inches square. Mark out the shape happen." said the mother kite. on one piece, to the sizes given inOnce I knew a little old cat who diagram A, and, after sawing

If you are going to the seaside you will want a nice big bag to take down to the beach with your bath- ing kit and perhaps your lunch safely packed inside. **

...Well, we'll see what we can do to help you Ordinary crash, is a good material to use for the out- aide. If you line It with American Cloth, it will be waterproof as well and your damp towel and wet bathing-suit won't damage it when you walk back, home.

You will need a piece of crash | twenty-four inches wide and eighteen inches long, with a similar piece of American Cloth for the

The beach bag" about which Dressmaker tells you to-day.

the outline, remove all was as thin as a rake, and only had a round

she was quite happy living with a roughness with a chisel. Drill the drop of milk in a blue moon, but poor old woman-until a rich, fat cat came by and invited her to the lining. You'll also need two strips King's palace. She went, and she of crash for the handle, each strip was killed right away in an ac-four inches wide and twelve inches cident. Stay where you are, Shah, long.

Book-ends which you can make now ready to give away at Christmas,

and be content."

It's fun to decorate the front of So Shah stayed, but he was not the bay with a fierce-looking fish, content. He wondered why he cut out of gaily checked gingham was a different from the little and buttonhole-stitched

on with kites, and his golden eyes used to thread in the same colour as the peer over the tree tops longingly checks. The Diagram gives you the "I feel as if my wings were made shape of the fish, and you'll find It for flying, mother," he said. "Let quite easy to cut it out from the me go! I'll take the risk! What mea:rements. Tack it in place on ever happens to me, I won't grum-one half of the crash, and button- ble,"

hole it all round. The fins are When the mother kite saw that stemstitched on with the same he would always be, hawk, she let thread, and the eye is worked with him go. It was kind of her, be black thread. A wavy line to re- cause she loved him and she knew present the sea completes the de- she would never see him again. sign.

Fold the crash in half on the Away went Shah, his strong, lovely wings carrying him where he wish wrong side, and sow up to form the ed, and his wonderful eyes seeing bag. Do the same with the lining, everything. He saw the King out slip this inside the bag, and fold hawking, and down he swooped and the edges of the crash down on top, plucked pheasant room the of the Cloth Stitch King's falcon.

firmly, sew the two crush pieces of Snate me that robber hawk! handle together on the wrong side, cried the King.

turn right way cut, and stitch them They caught Shah, and the King to the top of the bag.

A line of laughed when he saw him. mi blanket-stitching round the top of

"So brave and beautiful a bird the bag finishes it effectively. shall be my falcon," he said.

When some Saxon three screw holes the lower part, monks tried to build a house on the as shown in the diagram, then well land which the Normans had left rüb sides and edges of the upright desolate, she was so annoyed that with fine glasspaper. Use this as a she stole their chickens and rooted pattern for marking out the shape of up their garden. So they thought the other upright, which must be cut she was a werwolf girl who and finished in the same way. With turned into a wolf at "night-and the point of a fine bradawl, score they set a trap for her. When they deep grooves, as indicated at B.B. vanght her, they put her in a cage to divide the uprights into tapered sat on the King's hand, and went for fear she would change into a panela.

hawking to his heart's content. wolf.

..

And Shah wore golden bells, and

Now cut two pieces of three-In fact he became a very great

Wendy's Dressmaker.

MY LITTLE TREE

Stands a little tree,

At first she howled like a wolf. quarter-inch wood to the shape and hawk, because he had the courage In the middle of the wood but when they had tamed her she sizes given in diagram C. and to face the world and its dangers. told them her story. Then they smooth, the rides and edges with

Dia-

watched them burn up every bit of wood uprights and bases. Tood and every home. Then they gram D shows how the plates pro- returned to the South and left the ject, and on these plates some of few Saxons who remained to die of the books rest, keeping the book hunger and cold.

Barley Sugar

And I always make-believe

It belongs to me!

The trunk is brown and glossy,

The leaves are very green,

In fact I'm sure my little tree's.

The prettiest ever seen!

country from the Humber to the sent her to the nuns, where she was glasspaper. These base pieces OUR SWEET-MAKING CORNER Tyne every

every very happy and did as she liked are screwed to the uprights never quite as shown in the two top diagrams. house. When nearly all the Saxons because people were had been killed, Hilda fled to the sure that she was a real girl. But Before making the screw holes bases, hold each woods. They were so dense that Hilda always laughed when she in the

Put one pound of lump sugar heard anything about werwolves pair of parts together on a flat sur the Normans, could not kill the because she knew what they were! face, and, using a bradawl and the into a saucepan with a teacupful of Cock Robin and Sir Blackbird

All the summer days holes in the uprights as guides, water, and dissolve slowly over mark the positions of the holes. very low heat. When the sugar Perch atop the boughs and sing Use brass counter-sunk screws for has melted, boil the syrup very Happy roundelays. fixing, so that the heads of the slowly for half an hour, stirring screws come flush with the faces of occasionally--or all the time if you La cannot prevent it from boiling fast ends rigid.

the uprights.

If any, acum rises to the top, skim Now you require two pieces of it off Try a little of the syrup in Soon it began to snow, and

Paste a piece of felt or green thin sheet metal, five-and-a-half cold water. If it snaps easily, it is Hilda wondered what she should do baize to the bottom of each metal inches long and five inches wide. ready. Add a little vanilla flavour. As she sat huddled up watching the plate to prevent it from scratch- snow, something came and licked ing any polished surface on which Shape one end of each to the same ing if you like, then pour out the

angle as the bases C.

Cand drill Bach her neck Up she jumped, thinking it may res

mixture on to large dish. When metal plate to take four screws for it was a wolf. Then she gave a The finished book-ends can be

touch without burning your angers, little ery of surprise,

cnt strips with a "Grendel," she whispered, "Gran-painted with enamel in one or two fixing to the undersides of the the barley sugar is cold enough ja

bright colours.

Teach

del-my father's hound who joined the wolves last winter! Grendel-is it thee?"

The Hut Carpenter.

(Continued at foot of preceding Column).

Anto a nice curling stick

Oh and early in the Spring, When the year was new, Blackbird built his cosy nest

in the branches too! Though I've never been at night,

I am sure the Elves Dance around my

And enjoy themsel

TINK'S CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

Acrom

Solution to last week's puzzi

13

8. Said over again

1. A month of the year.

3. Belonging to him

(May). (His).

6. As well

(Also),

(Repeated).

11. Part of verb "to be",

(Am).

12. Pronoun

(Her)

(Van).

(Ease).

(Emir).

14. Vehicle

16.

Comfort

18. An Arab prince

20. We all look forward to these (Holidays).

Down

1.

Spoil

(Mar).

2. Puppy's bark

(Yap).

8. Not cold”

(Hot).

4. Sorrowful

(Sad).

6. Meadow

(Lea)

7. Boy's name "{abbre÷mated)

(Sam)

9. An animal

10. Girl's name

(Evx).**

12. Kind of stew

(Hash).

18. What cotton is wound on

(Reel).

14: Girl's name

(Vera)

15.

Pinches

(Nips).

17. French for "friend

(Ami).

18. Boy's name (abbreviated)

(Sid).

This week's clues?—

Across.

1. Went quickly.

1. Boy's name.

6. Distant.

7. A. scene.

9.

·10.

Number.

Girl's name.

Part of

verb 'to be'.

12. Some, A 13. What you sing. 15. Pronoun. 18. Help.

You should sing 13 in this

19. Tell.

2. Metallic subs

3. Each

4. Go an horseback.

5. Number

B, Large wood.

8. Needed

Ministering spi

12. Girl's name.

14. Belonging to us, 15. Rested

16. Hurry

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